It's Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System

[B00Mer]

It's Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System

Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space - YouTube


A spacecraft from Earth has left its cosmic backyard and taken its first steps in interstellar space.

After streaking through space for nearly 35 years, NASA's robotic Voyager 1 probe finally left the solar system in August 2012, a study published today (Sept. 12) in the journal Science reports.

"Voyager has boldly gone where no probe has gone before, marking one of the most significant technological achievements in the annals of the history of science, and as it enters interstellar space, it adds a new chapter in human scientific dreams and endeavors," NASA science chief John Grunsfeld said in a statement. "Perhaps some future deep-space explorers will catch up with Voyager, our first interstellar envoy, and reflect on how this intrepid spacecraft helped enable their future." [NASA's Voyager Probes: 5 Surprising Facts]

 

[WLDB]

Very cool. It will be interesting to see if it is ever actually seen by humans again. If it is I imagine I wont be alive to hear about it.

 

[B00Mer]

Very cool. It will be interesting to see if it is ever actually seen by humans again. If it is I imagine I wont be alive to hear about it.

Gene Roddenberry says in 2394 Voyager returns to Earth after 23 years in the Delta Quadrant. :lol:

 

[WLDB]

Gene Roddenberry says in 2394 Voyager returns to Earth after 23 years in the Delta Quadrant. :lol:

If you mean V'Ger from the Motion Picture not true. That probe was Voyager 4. Only problem is there never was a Voyager 4.

If you are referring to the Voyager tv show it was only in the Delta Quadrant for 7 years. Conveniently the amount of time the series had on the air. Roddenberry also had nothing to do with that show. He died 4 years before it aired. He knew DS9 was coming but got no say in it and died well before it was put together.

 

[B00Mer]

If you mean V'Ger from the Motion Picture not true. That probe was Voyager 4. Only problem is there never was a Voyager 4.

If you are referring to the Voyager tv show it was only in the Delta Quadrant for 7 years. Conveniently the amount of time the series had on the air. Roddenberry also had nothing to do with that show. He died 4 years before it aired. He knew DS9 was coming but got no say in it and died well before it was put together.

Was "joking" about V'Ger... but you want to dissect the whole thing.. the HaHa is now gone. geez party pooper.

BTW, Voyager will reach the next closest star is 45,000 years.. you going to wait around to see what it finds?

 

[hunboldt]

Very cool. It will be interesting to see if it is ever actually seen by humans again. If it is I imagine I wont be alive to hear about it.

DarkBeaarver's posts still reach us....:smile:

 

[hunboldt]

Was "joking" about V'Ger... but you want to dissect the whole thing.. the HaHa is now gone. geez party pooper.

BTW, Voyager will reach the next closest star is 45,000 years.. you going to wait around to see what it finds?

 

[WLDB]

Was "joking" about V'Ger... but you want to dissect the whole thing.. the HaHa is now gone. geez party pooper.

BTW, Voyager will reach the next closest star is 45,000 years.. you going to wait around to see what it finds?

ha. Missed that. Damn internet makes it easy to misread tone.

If it were possible to live 45,000 years in a healthy way I'd be all for it.

 

[SLM]

ha. Missed that. Damn internet makes it easy to misread tone.

If it were possible to live 45,000 years in a healthy way I'd be all for it.

The answer is obvious...time machine.

Anyone got a spare DeLorean kicking around?

 

[WLDB]

Anyone got a spare DeLorean kicking around?

Ha. Outside of car shows those things are fairly hard to find these days.

 

[spaminator]

Gene Roddenberry says in 2394 Voyager returns to Earth after 23 years in the Delta Quadrant. :lol:

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[SLM]

Ha. Outside of car shows those things are fairly hard to find these days.

Okay, hard to find but not impossible.

Next...plutonium.

 

[Goober]

I read Battlefield Earth- Aliens will be on the way.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I read Battlefield Earth- Aliens will be on the way.

With any luck. This organisation is in desperate need of new management.

 

[darkbeaver]

With any luck. This organisation is in desperate need of new management.

Exactly, good management would be completely alien to us. Maybe my wish for alien intervention is not so bizarre after all eh.

 

[Goober]

With any luck. This organisation is in desperate need of new management.

A cull of the leadership.

 

[spaminator]

It's Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System

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[Blackleaf]

What took it so long?

I could even travel through central London a bit quicker than that.

ha. Missed that. Damn internet makes it easy to misread tone.

If it were possible to live 45,000 years in a healthy way I'd be all for it.

Some aliens may come along soon and, for some reason, fit a light-speed capable warp-drive to it.

It'll then only take it about four years to travel to the next star.

 

[WLDB]

What took it so long?

I could even travel through central London a bit quicker than that.

The solar system is very big. It usually takes a year to get to Mars. Up to seven to get to Jupiter. Passing Pluto has only been done by the Voyager probes and it took nearly 20 years to do that. The solar system does not end at Pluto though. There is the keiper belt and radiation from the sun. You dont officially clear the solar system til you leave the sun's sphere of influence.

 

[petros]

Yakko says it best.

Yakko: Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.

It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.

And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.

And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!

YW+D : It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
* Though we don't know how it got here
* We're an important part here
* It's a big universe and it's ours!

* - In the original script, these lines were:

YW+D : You might think that you're essential
Try inconsequential
It's a small world after all!